INTRODUCTION THEMES Government Sakhalin Region Construction of infrastructure and transport structures in complicated The Symposium themes are geo-monitoring; modeling and prognosis of Far Eastern Railway geological conditions and to be safe under natural disasters is a very natural and emergency situations; preventive geotechnical measures for The Russian Academy of Architecture and challenging task and demands cooperating efforts from scientists, designers disaster reduction. and contractors. Complicated geotechnical problems are confronted under 1.Use geomaterials for construction and reconstruction transportation objets Construction Sciences conditions of high probability of earthquakes, landslides, mud flows, snow 2. Geomonitoring, modeling of geodynamic processes, prognoses of International Geosyntetical Society avalanches, flooding and other hazardous phenomena such as break of natural phenomena: dams, underground mountain row collapsing, a large-scale and intensive oil - earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons; International Technical Committee №4 and gas leakage, industrial and terrorist explosions and other - landslids, mud flows, volcanic eruptions, floodings; of Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and techno/antropogenic impacts. The International Technical Committee 203 - soil liquefaction, scuffling, swelling, freezing of the soil bases. of Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Associated Problems 3. Geotechnical measures for natural disaster reduction of: Associated Problems (TC203) (TC203); International Technical Committee № 216 ISSMGE Frozen soils; - marine engineering; International Technical Committee №216 ISSMGE Technical Committee № 202 «Transportation geotechnics», The Asian - railways and highways, pipelines; Technical Committee №3 (ATC-3) of Geotechnology for Natural Hazards, - bridges, tunnels, aerodrome; Frozen soils The Commission on Earthquake Engineering and Mitigating Industrial & - civil engineering structures The Asian Technical Committee №3 Natural Disasters (CoMIND), Centre on EQE&NDR (Cender), The Russia 4. Geotechnical engineering in special environments: Society for Soil Mechanics, Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering - geotechnical engineering in cold climate regions; of Geotechnology for Natural Hazards (ATC-3) (ISSMGE) and Kazakhstan Geotechnical society are planning to organize - geotechnical engineering in high-mountainous regions; The Commission on Earthquake Engineering the International Geotechnical Symposium on 04-07 July, 2018 in Yuzhno- - geotechnical engineering in zones of fluctuation of a sea level. Sakhalinsk (Russia) with special technical tours to lake island Sakhalin 5. Geoecology of extreme situations: and Mitigating Industrial & Natural (Russia). - geotechnics of embankments, waste and tailing’s storages; Disasters (CoMIND) Experts from the CIS countries (especially from Russia and - geotechnics of industrial, radioactive waste products; Kazakhstan), Japan, the USA, Canada, Finland, Belgium, Holland, Poland, - pollution of river and sea bottoms; of Intergovernmental Council for Cooperation Australia and India are expected to take part in the Symposium. - geoecology of oil & gas deposits in Construction Activity in the CIS - the use of mineral resources to reduce the negative impact on the The Russian Society for Soil Mechanics THE PURPOSE OF THE SYMPOSIUM environment Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering The main attention is given to sharing knowledge on reliable preventive DATE AND LOCATION The Kazakhstan Geotechnical Society geotechnical measures directed towards damage minimization when the available information is either incomplete or inconsistent. The Russia Federation will hold the International Geotechnical Symposium Far Eastern State Transport University Experts are invited to take part in the Symposium, to present special in the City of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Russia) during 04-07 July 2018. lectures, oral and poster reports, to exhibit the equipments and devices, to Information on registration fees, venue, accommodations and transportation introduce various achievements in the geotechnical engineering field and will be given in Bulletin № 2, which will be sent to participants, who have also to discuss the lessons learned from resent disasters and to share the completed and submitted the preliminary registration form (included in this modern knowledge & technologies implemented into practice for damage brochure) to the Organizing Committee. International mitigation. As a result it is expected to receive papers dealing with the Geotechnical Symposium improved practical approaches and engineering solutions, unified new OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE SYMPOSIUM construction, codes and regulations to prevent and reduce the disasters before they strike again. Official language of the Symposium is English and Russian GEOTECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERING & EXHIBITION THE IMPORTANT DATES TRANSPORT STRUCTURES The exhibition of the scientific and technical achievements, literature and Deadline for abstracts (under 300 words in English): 31 March 2018. OF THE ASIAN-PACIFIC REGION advertising - prospectuses will be organized during the Symposium. Preliminary registration: on or before 31 March 2018. Because the available space for exhibition is limited, early request are Abstract notification: on or before 31 March 2018. kindly appreciated. Deadline for papers (up to 6 pages): 15 May 2018. С Distribution of Bulletin №2: 28 February 2018. Notification on acceptance of papers: 15 May 2018. П TECHNICAL TOUR Registration of participants (preferential): on or before 01 May 2018. Б Technical tours are planned to lake island Sakhalin (Russia) after a Final date of reception of paper after author's revision: 15 May 2018. - The bulletin № 1 Symposium. Detailed information will be given in the Bulletin №2 Г Е July 04-07, 2018 ОYuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia Т Е Х Н И К THE INSTRUCTION ON PAPERS PREPARATION 12. Professor Abdelmalek (Malek) Bouazza - Chair ISSMGE TC215 The address for the correspondence Environmental Geotechnics, Monash University, Australia Articles of no more than 6 pages should be prepared in English language 13. Professor Jiankun Liu - Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China strictly according to the instructions. For editing send articles in electronic 14. Professor Stjepan Lakusic - University of Zagreb, Croatia Professor Sergey Kudryavtsev and Tatyana Valtseva and hard variants. 15.Academic RAACN, V.I. Travush - Chairman of the Department of Street Serishev, 47, Institute Transport Construction and Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the Symposium will be printed in English. Building Sciences RAACN Far Eastern State Transport University (FESTU), 16. Academic RAACN, V.A.Ilyichev – President of Russian Society STEERING COMMITTEE Khabarovsk, Russia, 680021 ISSMGE, Moscow. tel.+7(4212)407502, tel. +7-9143181545 1. Far Eastern State Transport University; 17. Academic RAACN, P.A. Abbasov – Far Eastern Federal University, 2. Sakhalin Institute Railway transport – branch of Far Eastern State Vladivostok, Russia e-mail: [email protected] Transport University; 18. Corresponding Member RAACN, A.T.Bekker – Far Eastern Federal www.festu.khv.ru 3. Government Sakhalin Region; Universityт, Vladivostok, Russia 4. Legislative Assembly of the Sakhalin Region; 19. Academic M.A.Klyachko – Chairman of the CIS Commission on 5. Far Eastern Rail Road; CoMIND, Director of Cender, St.Petersburg, Russia 6. The Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences; 20. Professor O.A.Shulyatiev - Vice-director of NIIOSP, Moscow, Russia The preliminary registration form (application): convictive 7. International Geosyntetical Society; 21. Professor R.A. Mangushev – Head of Department of Geotechnical request to send in Organizing committee till 31 march 2018 8. International Technical Committee 203 of Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, SPBGASU, St. Petersburg, Russia Engineering and Associated Problems; 22. Professor A.V.Petriaev – President Russian Geosintetic Society 9. International Technical Committee 216 of Frozen Soils; Sex: M/F 10. The Asian Technical Committee №3 of Geotechnical for Natural INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD Surname: ________________________________________ Hazards; 1. Professor K.Ishihara – Past-president of ISSMGE, Chuo University, 11. The Russian Society for Soil Mechanics, Geotechnics and Foundation Tokyo, Japan Name: __________________________________________ Engineering; 2. Professor Y. Iwasaki – Director of the Geo-Research Institute, Osaka, The organization: __________________________________ 12. RCIGS; Japan 13. The Kazakhstan Geotechnical Society. 3. Professor Kamada Teruaki - Director General Civil Engineering Position: _________________________________________ SPONSORS AND THE SUPPORTING Research Institute for Cold Region (CERI), Title: - Dr. - Prof. - Associate Prof. ORGANIZATIONS 4. Professor E.C.Shin – Professor of the University of Incheon, Incheon, The address for the correspondence: ___________________ Special privileges and assistance in advertising in Russia, Kazakhstan, Korea in other CIS and Asia - pacific countries will be given to the enterprises 5. Professor V.M. 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